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| "Make the world safe for a better democracy" |
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>Quote from President Woodrow Wilson
>Woman's suffrage and WWI |
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| >An organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty |
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| >People, groups, or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose |
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| Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
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>Archduke of Austria-Este
>From 1889 until his death, he was heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne |
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>World War I
>The alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies |
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| >Goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law |
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| >Took place while Europe was embroiled in World War I |
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| >Ship that was blew up and was one of the causes leading up to WWI |
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| >Impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are |
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>Label given to America's nineteenth-century foreign policy
>It was based on President Washington's warning not to form alliances or become politically entangled with European nations in peacetime
>Announced as policy in the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 |
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>First woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives
>First female member of the Congress sometimes referred to as the Lady of the House |
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| >Was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling both the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from June 15th 1888 to November 19th 1918 |
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| >A political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests |
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| >Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency |
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| >The aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination |
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| >Specifically choosing who would be drafted and put into the military line |
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| >A country in southeastern Europe |
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| >Being able to shoot at Americans or any other country without fair warning |
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>28th President of the United States
>Led the United States in World War I
>Secured the formation of the League of Nations |
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>Coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire
>Arthur Zimmermann
>January 16, 1917
> Sent to the German ambassador in Washington, Johann von Bernstorff
>At the height of World War I |
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| >An unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies |
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>The top Allied leaders who met at the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919, following the end of World War I (1914–18)
>Itlay, Britian, France, And The US |
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| American Expeditionary Force |
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| >United States Armed Forces sent to Europe in World War I |
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| >A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms |
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| >Obsolete slang term for a United States Army infantryman |
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Fourteen Points
(1-5, 14) |
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1. An end to all secret agreements
2. Freedom of all the seas in peace and war
3. Reduction of trade barriers
4. General reduction of armaments
5. Adjustment of colonial claims
14. League of Nations |
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| >Republican U.S. Representative and Senator who argued against the League of Nations in 1919 |
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| >General officer in the United States Army |
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>International organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations
>Suggested by Woodrow Wilson
> US never joined and it remained powerless
>Was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed |
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| >A toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs |
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| Russian and Bolshevik Revolutions |
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| >Treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans |
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| >Type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other |
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| >Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol |
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| >WOMEN CAN VOTE, WOO HOOO!!! (: |
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| >Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921 |
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| Anti-Immigration Sentiment |
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>American financier, stock-market speculator, statesman, and political consultant.
>Devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters |
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| Committee on Public Information |
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| >Independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U.S. public opinion regarding American participation in World War I |
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| >Attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to collect war reparations debt from Germany |
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| Espionage and Sedition Acts |
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| US federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World war I. It prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operations, to support U.S. enemies during wartime, to promote insubordination in the military, or to interfere with military recruitment |
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| >United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist |
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| >Created by the Lever Act of 1917 and had the authority to control prices, license distributors, negotiate prices, oversee exports, and tell farmers to grow more crops |
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| >Investigative journalist, a politician, and, most famously, the head of the United States Committee on Public Information |
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>31st President of the United States
>1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt |
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| Industrial Workers of the World |
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>Former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States
>Founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism
>Its membership declined after World War I |
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| John L. Lewis (United Mine Workers) |
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>Leader of the United Mine Workers
>United Mine Workers- an industrial union of mine workers in North America |
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| >Name of several past and present far right hate groups in the United States whose avowed purpose is to protect the rights and further the interests of White Americans of Protestant faith by violence and intimidation |
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| >Attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport left-wing radicals, especially anarchists, from the United States |
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| >Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts |
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| >United States Supreme Court decision that upheld the Espionage Act of 1917 and concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I |
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| >The freedom of the people of a given territory or national grouping to determine their own political status and how they will be governed without undue influence from any other country |
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>1917-1920
>Strong anti-communism |
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| >United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies |
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| Washington Naval Conference |
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| >Military conference called by the administration of President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington, D.C. from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922 |
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